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I'm writing at my thesis and it has now about 60 pages.. When I want to compile it (to pdf), it lasts about 20 seconds.. Is it normal? I think, the included graphics costs a lot of time?!

Unfortunately I don't have much experience in LaTeX...

But I discovered the draft mode.. There it compiles much faster... But it omits beside the graphics also the lstlistings in my code..

In the draft of my thesis, I don't need the graphics, but the code snippets (embedded in lstlistings) would be nice..

Are there any possibilities to get this? Fast compiling and lstlistings..

Martin Schröder
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mrbela
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  • Are you using the draft as option in the class or in the graphicx package? – Sigur Dec 13 '13 at 13:11
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    a 190pp doc i regularly compile takes 2.5 seconds with latex, 7 seconds with pdflatex; so pdflatex itself is one source of your problem. (i suspect graphics in pdflatex are worse still, in comparison, since they have to be copied to the output, whereas latex merely puts a \special command into the output stream. (my doc doesn't have any graphics at all.) – wasteofspace Dec 13 '13 at 13:38
  • mh, Sigur, I use the draft option in the documentclass! – mrbela Dec 13 '13 at 13:48
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    split your document into multiple files and then use include and includeonly – cmhughes Dec 13 '13 at 20:30
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You could compile everything in your document in draft mode except for the graphics by passing the draft option to your documentclass and then the final option, which is the inverse of draft to listings.

\documentclass[draft]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[final]{listings}
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